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Bangla Press Desk: Hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough in the US-Israeli war with Iran receded as a new week began, with talks aimed at ending the two-month conflict at a standstill and both Tehr...
Bangla Press Desk: Italy’s ruling Brothers of Italy party has announced plans to propose a law that would prohibit the wearing of burqas and niqabs in all public places across the country, describing the measure as an effort to combat “Islamic separa...
Bangla Press Desk: The number of U.S. federal worker layoffs as a result of the government shutdown was revised downward on Tuesday, suggesting the Trump administration's initial statement about sweeping job cuts was too ambitious.The Trump administr...
Bangla Press Desk: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Tuesday the truce between Hamas and Israel must not come at the expense of holding accountable those responsible for the "genocide" in Gaza."Peace cannot mean forgetting; it cannot mean imp...
Bangla Press Desk: A suspected short circuit sparked a fire on a passenger bus in northern India on Tuesday, rapidly engulfing the vehicle in flames and burning at least 20 people to death, authorities said.The bus with 35 to 50 passengers aboard was...
Bangla Press Desk: The U.S. government has seized more than $14 billion in bitcoin and charged the founder of a Cambodian conglomerate in a massive cryptocurrency scam, accusing him and unnamed co-conspirators of exploiting forced labor to dupe would...
Bangla Press Desk: The United Nations warned Tuesday that its ability to help children in the sprawling Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh was rapidly shrivelling and would soon fall off a "funding cliff".The UN children's agency UNICEF said condit...
Staff Reporter: A Queens grand jury indicted a Jackson Heights woman on charges of sex trafficking, grand larceny and other related crimes for allegedly forcing a woman to engage in prostitution on Roosevelt Avenue and to pay the defendant a daily su...
Noman Sabit: For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. passport is no longer in the list of top 10 most powerful passports in the world. What makes a passport “powerful”? It is often defined by the ability to travel to destinations around t...
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Bangla Press Desk: President Andry Rajoelina said on Tuesday he had dissolved the lower house of parliament, escalating a standoff with youth-led protesters and the military that forced him to flee the island.A presidency decree on Facebook said the...
Bangla Press Desk: The Egyptian president told a summit of world leaders Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump’sMideast proposal represents the “last chance” for peace in the region and reiterated his call for a two-state solution, saying Palestini...
Bangla Press Desk: As the Gaza war dragged on, a diminished Hamas faced growing internal challenges to its control of Gaza from long-standing rivals, many of them affiliated with powerful local clans.Since Friday's ceasefire took hold, Hamas has soug...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump remains on track to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea in late October, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, as both sides looked to ease tensions following fresh tariff threats and export...
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